The Telegraph (Free subscription) | yesterday
The UK's planned new fiscal rules are yet more fudge. The Government is setting out legislation to halve the deficit in five years. That's a worthy goal. But Gordon Brown probably won't be Prime Minister in one year let alone five - and the new law won't carry any sanctions if the target isn't met.
Blaney's Blarney (Free subscription) | yesterday
Psalm 109:8 . Hat Tip: Kelly.
BBC News (Free subscription) | yesterday
Prime Minster Gordon Brown and his top team of ministers have travelled to Nottingham for a Cabinet meeting.
The Guardian (Free subscription) | yesterday
British peer says she will show she is the best person for the job of European foreign minister over the next few months and years Europe's eight-year quest to establish a simpler and more democratic regime came to a dramatic climax last night when the Belgian prime minister, Herman Van Rompuy, and British peer Cathy Ashton were appointed as the two top officials embodying the new system. In a surprise...
The Guardian (Free subscription) | yesterday
Pay no attention to the Eurosceptics. Cathy Ashton's posting as EU 'foreign secretary' is a major post-Lisbon development The chorus of ill-informed and patronising calls of "Who?" that have greeted the appointments of the Belgian prime minister, Herman Van Rompuy , as the new long-term president (really chairman) of the European Council, and Baroness Cathy Ashton, as the new EU foreign...
Events dear boy, events (Free subscription) | yesterday
Of course, as Iain Martin suggests , it is a bizarre decision to appoint Baroness Ashton to the post of EU high representative for Foreign Affairs and security: But this weird kind of compromise choice is what you get with backroom stitch-ups. With France and Germany settled on Van Rompuy for president, the high representative needed to be from the socialist grouping and a big country. So thoughts...
Flip Chart Fairy Tales (Free subscription) | yesterday
The news that October’s budget deficit was the highest since 1993 had all the Labour-hating newspapers jumping up and down with barely concealed glee. The suggestion that this is all Gordon Brown’s fault is being relentlessly pushed by his enemies. He spent lots of cash he didn’t have on public services so now we’re all in [...]
TechDigest (Free subscription) | yesterday
The latest political showdown on Mumsnet looks like delivering a points victory for Gordon Brown. Apparently David Cameron, who answered questions on a live web chat on the site today, was criticised by some posters as taking too long to answer. Brown apparently answered 30 questions in his hour on the site (could have been 31 if he'd taken the biscuit challenge) while the Tory leader managed just...
Britannia Radio (Free subscription) | yesterday
A selection of recent media reportsGordon Brown is joking if he thinks he can outlaw his own profligacy Asked why there was so little crime in Germany, a comedian replied: "Because it's against the law." Working on the same principle, Gordon Brown promises to eliminate his Government's ballooning deficit £200 billion and rising with a Bill to halve it in four years. Yes, too much state...
paidContent:UK (Free subscription) | yesterday
The government has published a draft version of the Digital Economy Bill , the legislature based on the summer’s Digital Britain white paper . It sets out the government’s key aims on piracy, universal broadband and the future of regional news. But will Gordon Brown and business secretary Lord Mandelson have enough time to pass it through parliament? An election is expected in May and...
PrairiePundit (Free subscription) | yesterday
WSJ: President Barack Obama and British Prime Minister Gordon Brown have turned the focus of Afghan war planning toward an exit strategy, publicly declaring that the U.S. and its allies can't send additional troops without a plan for getting them out. The shift has unnerved some U.S. and foreign officials, who say that planning a pullout now -- with or without a specific timetable -- encourages the...
The Independent (Free subscription) | yesterday
The Government will provide anything needed to help during the flooding which has seen hundreds of people evacuated from their homes, Gordon Brown said today.
A Very British Dude (Free subscription) | yesterday
Someone your average accountant wouldn't invite round to dinner because he looks so boring, from a country no-one (not even the people who live there) cares about, has been given a job that no-one wanted and doesn't matter. We can tell that the president of Europe doesn't matter because the French have not come over all French on us on the news that a Frenchman is not doing the job. They did not even...
Matthew Taylor's blog (Free subscription) | yesterday
On my way to Nottingham for a conference on emotional well being, I find myself sharing the train with half the Cabinet. Given how London-centric most of the national media are, many people won’t know that one of Gordon Brown’s political innovations has been regularly to hold Cabinet meetings outside of London. So, today, ministers are [...] Related posts: The cabinet’s big gamble...
Norfolk 'n Good! (Free subscription) | yesterday
Can there have been a more touching sight this week than our dear, dear Prime Minister Gordon Brown having to give up the fight for his friend, compatriot and public-school blood-brother Tony Bliar to become All Powerful Ruler of Europe, King of Brussels? Taking out his fourth onion, Gordon's eyes misted with intense sadness as he admitted that the one thing he has been fighting for above all else...
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carrolltrust | 24/09/2009
Royal Bank of Scotland Coutts Bank named as the primary offshore financial centre of operations in the Carroll Trust international criminal syndicate case, now the subject of major criminal allegations of conspiracy to defraud racketeering money laundering in Britain's longest running largest organised criminal conspiracy corruption case. Lord Home Chairman of RBS Coutts and the newly appointed chief
rex6666 | 30/06/2009
A few months ago, the BBCs Top Gear and Sun columnist Jeremy Clarkson , unveiled his manifesto for running Britain as PM. And since then we've had a string of celebrities contemplate running as independent MPs in wake of the scandalous MPs expenses saga, first broken by the Telegraph newspaper . Yesterday Gordon Brown was trying to reclaim the political agenda by announcing a raft of measures on social...
autismnews | 30/06/2009
British Parliamentarians of all parties in the House of Commons in Westminster have backed an early day motion on Autism and the Carer's Allowance. EDM 1551 was tabled by Lee Scott MP who has been campaigning tirelessly in the House of Commons on autism and Asperger's Syndrome. Autism campaigners in the United Kingdom have been urging the Prime Minister Gordon Brown and the Government to increase the...
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